binmail(1) question
Frederick M. Avolio
avolio at decuac.dec.com
Thu Sep 21 05:56:50 AEST 1989
In article <2032 at ifi.uio.no>, tage at sfd.uit.no (Tage Stabell-Kul) writes:
> 0) What info does /bin/mail read from kmem ?
I'm pretty sure it determines the load average and then fom that makes
some guesses.. I mean calculations as to how long to wait on a lock
file, etc.
> 1) /bin/mail is setuid-root. Do the program do a setuid , if so, to
> whom ?
Well, it writes to the end of your mailbox. It is root to insure that
it can do that.
Fred
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